[FITZ]

If I thought my kids would buy a newspaper when I give them 50 cents then I wouldn't give them the 50 cents --- but I know they'll buy candy. This doesn't limit any free speech --- because shows like Stern's can move to subscription channels, anyone who wants it can sign up. I think with radios automatically added to cars, alarm clocks, many are made to look like kids' toys, anything beamed at am/fm receivers doesn't need to be pornographic. I don't care if you want porn -- you can have it but what I don't want is unsolicited porn --- I wouldn't sign up with a subscription channel that offered Stern's show --- but it's fine with me if you do.

[CIBvet]

AG Ashcroft needs to attack the cable companies for bundling their product, just as MicroSoft and IBM were hit for bundling their product.

When you pay your cable bill every month to get Fox, cSpan, History Ch. etc, you are also being forced to support MTV 1, MTV 2, Howard Stern, and the rest of the video sewage programs pumped into our homes. Each of these porn-shows receive xx number of cents from our payment each month, just for also being included in the basic package.

If the cable companies were forced to UN-bundle these trashy shows, and make them each stand or fall on their own merit, many if not most, of the porn-trash shows catering to teens & twentysomthings, would FAIL within 6mos.

As it is now, American Moms and Dads are the ones paying/supporting the cable bill, and most, if given a clear choice, wouldn't choose to pay to have their children exposed to harmful, degenerate, programming.

Right now consumers don't have a choice to exclude the vulgar and evil from our living-rooms, if they want even the most basic package.

Having this video-sewage pumped into our homes 24/7 is absolutely destroying families and the nation we've been blessed to live in.